The Senate Committee on Local Content has ordered the Group General Manager of National Petroleum Investment and Management Service (NAPIMS), Mr. Roland Ewubare, to appear before it within 24 hours or risk being forced to do so.

Chairman of the panel Samuel Adeola gave the order at its sitting attended by 10 senators investigating the variations associated with the $16 billion Egina Deep Sea Oil Project.

THE Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, on Wednesday, asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to dismiss a suit by two oil companies, Midwestern Oil and Gas Company Limited and Suntrust Oil Company Nigeria Limited, seeking to be allowed to enjoy five-year tax relief.

Cited as respondents in the suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/364/2015 and filed pursuant to Order 33 rules 1(1) and (2); and 3(1) and 5 of the Federal High Court, (Civil Procedure) Rules, 2009, are the Nigerian Investment Promotion Council, NIPC, and FIRS.

A House of Representatives ad hoc panel on Wednesday asked the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) to clear the $1.5 billion unpaid royalties on oil and gas activities by international oil companies (IOCs).

The panel, which is investigating revenue leakages to the tune of N1.6 trillion from January 2016 to January 2017, said available records showed that the amount was incurred in a period of three years.

In a bid to salvage the fuel supply and distribution challenges witnessed in some parts of the country due to panic buying from motorists, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Maikanti Kacalla Baru, Tuesday, cut short his trip to London.

The Oil and Gas Free Zones Authority (OGFZA) has conferred the Oil and Gas Free Zone Developer status on Notore Chemical Industries Limited, following the company’s satisfactory compliance with the requirements for a free zone developer licence.

Speaking during the launch, the Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO), Forte Oil Group, Mr. Akin Akinfemiwa, stated that “we are the foremost integrated energy provider with footprints in upstream, downstream and power generation. Today, as we are launching our solar system, we always look for formidable partners to bring our vision to live."

A Dutch law firm has asked the public prosecutor in the Netherlands to file a case against Royal Dutch Shell, its CEO and former executives of over what it says were criminal actions relating to a 2011 oilfield purchase in Nigeria.

The Dutch authorities are already investigating the oilfield deal, alongside Italian prosecutors, who want to take Shell and Italy’s Eni to trial over alleged corruption on the same oilfield.

Vivo Energy Holding B.V. (“Vivo Energy”), a Vitol and Helios Investment Partners company, on Monday agreed to enter into a share transaction with Engen Holdings (Pty) Limited, in relation to the purchase of shares in Engen International Holdings Limited for the exchange of a shareholding in Vivo Energy, with a possible cash element.

More than 20 Nigerian and 60 Chinese suppliers have met in a strategic sourcing development forum in Shanghai mid-November in the latest effort by Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) to boost the capacity of indigenous vendors in the oil and gas industry.